The jubilee was a provision given to God’s people in Leviticus 25. Every fiftieth year, the year of jubilee, any land that had been sold was returned to its rightful owner and anyone who had sold himself into slavery was given back his freedom. In the Gospel of Luke we see that the Lord Jesus began His ministry by proclaiming “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to announce the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to proclaim release to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to send away in release those who are oppressed, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, the year of jubilee” (4:18-19). The ten free eBooklets in this set present the New Testament fulfillment of the type of the jubilee.
“What is the jubilee? The jubilee is actually the gospel of the New Testament… This gospel is the proclamation of the release of the captives and of the recovery of the lost birthright.”
Witness Lee, Life-study of Luke,p. 168
“Do you know what the preaching of the gospel is? The preaching of the gospel is the sounding of the jubilee, the trumpeting of the jubilee. The preaching of the gospel is the proclamation of our release…it is the release of us to our possession and to our family. Once we were in the wrong family, the family of slavery. The sounding of the jubilee tells us to return to our own family, to the family of God.”
Witness Lee, Life-study of Luke,p. 551
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In this booklet taken from Life-study of Luke, Witness Lee fellowships concerning Luke 4:18-19, where we see that the Lord Jesus was anointed to “proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.” This acceptable year is the New Testament age typified by the year of jubilee (Lev. 25:8-17), the time when God would accept the returned captives of sin (Isa. 49:8; 2 Cor. 6:2) and when the oppressed under the bondage of sin would enjoy the release of God’s salvation. The year of jubilee was a year of release, freedom, and return of lost property. The Man-Savior began His ministry by proclaiming the jubilee of grace.
The jubilee was a provision given to God’s people in Leviticus 25. Every fiftieth year, the year of jubilee, any land that had been sold was returned to its rightful owner and anyone who had sold himself into slavery was given back his freedom. Luke chapter 4 tells us that the Lord Jesus’ ministry opened with the proclamation of the jubilee, and in chapter 9 we see the spreading of the jubilee. Here the jubilee is the gospel of the New Testament, the proclamation of the release of the captives and of the recovery of the lost birthright. In this booklet taken from Life-study of Luke, Witness Lee considers the record in Luke 9:1-26 and the thought of the spreading of the jubilee that underlies it.
In this booklet compiled from Life-study of Luke, Witness Lee considers the order of events in Luke chapter 9. “Why after the feeding of the five thousand did the Lord question the disciples concerning Himself? Then why, immediately after they recognized Him as the Christ, did He tell them that He was about to be crucified and resurrected? The answer to these questions is that there cannot be a jubilee without Christ and without His death and resurrection.” The jubilee was a provision given to God's people in Leviticus 25. Every fiftieth year, the year of jubilee, any land that had been sold was returned to its rightful owner, and anyone who had sold himself into slavery was given back his freedom. Today, we cannot have the jubilee without Christ’s death and resurrection. Apart from the death of Christ, there would be no way for sinners to be released. Apart from the resurrection of Christ, there could not be the recovery of the lost right to enjoy God.
In this booklet compiled from Life-study of Luke, Witness Lee considers Luke 9:27-50. “This portion of the Gospel of Luke is related to the jubilee that was proclaimed in Luke 4. The jubilee is a release from bondage and the entering into the enjoyment of the Triune God. Here we see that it was necessary for the Lord Jesus to be transfigured. According to the entire revelation of the New Testament, we need transfiguration in order to enjoy the jubilee.”
Luke 12:1-48 contains three warnings: the warning concerning religious hypocrisy (vv. 1-12), the warning concerning covetousness (vv. 13-34), and the warning to be watchful and faithful (vv. 35-48). In this booklet taken from Life-study of Luke, Witness Lee presents the significance of these three warnings.
In this booklet taken from Life-study of Luke, Witness Lee considers the three parables spoken by the Lord Jesus in Luke 15. These parables reveal how the divine Trinity works to bring sinners back to Himself through the Son by the Spirit to the Father. “What a wonderful sequence we have in Luke 15! The sequence here is not according to the Persons of the Trinity; the sequence is according to the steps of God’s salvation, the salvation based on Christ’s redemption. God’s salvation is by the Son, through the Spirit, and unto the Father.”
Luke 24:36-51 presents the Lord’s resurrection and ascension. In this booklet taken from Life-study of Luke, Witness Lee considers the objective facts in these verses and how they relate to our Christian experience today.
Luke 4 the Man-Savior read from the book of Isaiah and proclaimed the acceptable year of the Lord. This acceptable year is the New Testament age of grace typified by the year of jubilee (Lev. 25:8-17), the fiftieth year in which all the slaves were liberated and every man’s inheritance was restored to him. In this booklet compiled from Life-study of Luke, Witness Lee defines the jubilee of grace, the reality of the Old Testament type, which is available to us today.
The Old Testament jubilee was a provision from God with two main blessings: land was returned to its rightful owner, and people were freed from slavery. Today, “the preaching of the gospel is the sounding, the trumpeting, of the jubilee. In the preaching of the gospel, we proclaim glad tidings, good news. This good news is that we can be returned to our lost possession and that we can be freed from slavery, from bondage.” In this booklet taken from Life-study of Luke, Witness Lee presents the Old Testament jubilee and the corresponding New Testament blessings we can enjoy now.
In Leviticus 25 we see a provision from God called the jubilee, a year when land was returned to its rightful owner and slaves were set free. It signifies a return to a situation of rest, satisfaction, and enjoyment. In this booklet taken from Life-study of Luke, Witness Lee considers how Christians can live in the reality of this enjoyment today.
Living Stream Ministry
Proclaiming the Acceptable Year of the Lord
The Spreading of the Ministry of Jubilee
The Enjoyment of the Jubilee through Christ’s Death and Resurrection
Transformation for the Enjoyment of the Jubilee
Three Warnings Related to the Enjoyment of the New Testament Jubilee
The Love of the Divine Trinity in Saving Sinners
Being Brought into the Lord’s Resurrection and Ascension to Proclaim the Jubilee
The Jubilee—Its Definition
Enjoying the Blessings of the Jubilee
The Kind of Life that Lives in the Jubilee
